Disney and Universal Sue AI Company Midjourney for Copyright Infringement

Disney and universal They filed a lawsuit against Midjourne, claiming that San Francisco is based AI Image Generation Start Studios is the “bottomless plagiarist plate”, which creates the “infinite unauthorized copies” of the work of the work. There is already Copyright claims with them Visual artists were brought to the US court system, including a class action claim against AI companies Against Midjournaya In 2023, but this was the first to master this in Hollywood Studios.

The complaint includes dozens of images that Midjourney’s studies can combine images reflecting the intellectual property. An image, “Yoda and Yoda, with a light saber, including IMAX, describes Yodan from Yodan. Another show,” the cartridge baby “resulted in a cartoon in a cunt, which is a” boss baby ” Cartridge baby franchise.

“This is an extremely important development,” The rope lawyer, who saw the drawing of pictures in the complaint, says the rope lawyer Chad Hummel says. The majority of EU companies facing court claims are protected by a “fair use” doctrine that allows you to use copyright in certain conditions; One of the key questions they want, one of the key questions, whether the new case is “transformative”, adds a new meaning or message when a fair use decides.

Matthew Sag, Prof. Right and Artificial Intelligence at Emory University.

“The reason for the difference is that Disney is a direct attack on the model’s performance. Several cherries do not use selected samples to prove the training of the model. “It will be very difficult to accept that Darth Vader is transformative to take 1000 pictures for the judiciary or jury and that Darth Vader uses further images.

The lawsuit was asked to “take technological measures” to prevent dismantling materials from Disney and universal Midjourne, but “ignored the company’s demands. In addition, the Midjourna’s “created more copies of the materials” claims that universal and Disney’s work “cleansed” during the training process. Midjourney did not respond immediately to surveys for a comment.

“We are optimistic about how to use a tool for the promise of AI technology and how to further develop human creations,” said Disney General Advisory Horacio Gutierrez said. “However, piracy is piracy and the fact that it is done by an AI company does not make it less impaired.”

Midjourney, as many other generative AI beginnings, instead of searching for special licenses, taught the tools to create a wide range of information on the Internet. In 2022 interview With Forbes, CEO David Holz openly discussed the process. “This is just a big bit of the Internet. This is using open information sets that are published and exercising.” “There is no way to get a hundred million images and where they come. If the copyright owner or something came to the metadata about something, there’s nothing, there’s nothing; there is no point.”